The life and achievements of Sir John Popham, 1531-1607 : leading to the establishment of the first English colony in New England
"Even now the ambiguities of his career remain, for in spite of a lifetime of devoted service to his country, Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chief Justice lives in popular imagination as a terrifying ghost. This book relishes the legends but overall aims to present a more balanced portrait. The first full-length biography of Sir John Popham, it uses his own letters and other contemporary documents to reveal the forceful personality and wide-ranging concerns of a top official at the very center of English government."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, N.J., ©2005
Biography
324 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
9780838640609, 9781611473032, 0838640605, 1611473039
57506811
Gypsy
Highwayman
Homebuilder
The Queen's servant
Attorney-general
Undertaker in Ireland
Lord of Littlecote
Lord Chief Justice
George's Guiana
Privy Councillor
Kimbolton's killer
Prisoner of Essex
Friend of Blundell
Cecil's correspondent
Ralegh's opposite
Drainer of the fens
Judge of plotters
Acting Lord Chancellor
Virginia planter
Ghost